Politician’s ’99 Death No Accident, Official Says

Ukraine’s most prominent nationalist leader, jailed for more than a decade in Soviet times and killed in a 1999 car accident, was in fact slain, the country’s interior minister said.

Yuri Lutsenko said at a news conference in the city of Dnipropetrovsk that new evidence showed Vyacheslav Chornovil’s death resulted from foul play. No charges had yet been filed.

Chornovil was returning to Kiev from central Ukraine six months before a presidential election when the car in which he was traveling slammed into a truck. He had been considered a possible candidate.